Ace-Garageguy

Yessir, now THERE is some modeling on YooToob that's worth looking at.

Lights from the street used to cast shadows of monsters and demons on my bedroom walls when I was little.

Home is anywhere I hang my britches for the night.

"CEL", or "check engine light" means you need to open the hood and check that the engine is still there. NOTE: Googli's AI says: "To check if your engine is still in place, locate the hood release lever inside your car (usually under the dashboard on the driver's side), pull it to release the hood, then carefully lift the hood and visually inspect the engine bay to ensure the engine is present and positioned correctly."

One of the things I like best about being an adult, being able to cook, and living alone, is that I can eat whatever I please, whenever I please. I usually eat "healthy", but on weekends I sometimes I allow myself...anything. Makes it easier to eat "right" the rest of the time. Tonight's fare was my world-famous jalapeno-chorizo-cheese dip with flour tortillas. That's it. Nothing else but a kinda rough country red wine. Fresh blackberries for dessert in a while, maybe a cuppa strong black coffee. Mmmmmm mmmmmm good.

Eat your vegetables.

"Heads on swivels" is what some pilots call the constant wariness you need to maintain about whatever might be in your airspace or vicinity when operating on the ground.

"Merit" was a brand of cigarette that today would probably be called "Participation". EDIT: (Oops. Looks like they still make 'em.)

Pyramids are reputed to have magical healing powers by some, are said to be cursed by others, and there are those who say they were built by aliens.

Couple things...I generally agree with Skip. Cobbling up stuff from junk isn't for everyone...but a perfectly adequate unit in terms of air delivery, noise, "safety" and "liability(?)" can be put together if, like me, you're experienced in making scary, dangerous stuff, know what you need to make it all work, and have access to the right junk. Thing 2...a noisy air compressor doesn't need to be a deal breaker. These days, I do my airbrushing with air that comes from the big shop compressor in the back of the house. It's LOUD in the same room, but with doors closed, I can barely hear it. An upside of my current rig is that the air coming out of the compressor has to travel through a 25 foot hose before it gets to the model bench. This means the air has cooled enough for moisture in it to have mostly condensed, so that a water trap at the spray station is much more effective than it would be on a short hose from a small dedicated compressor. If you've ever seen water droplets appear on a freshly painted surface, or had excessive blushing with lacquers, you'll know why this is important. AND...here's one mans opinion about small compressors in general. He makes some valid points.

http://manuals.hobbico.com/rmx/85-4024.pdf

Chew each mouthful of food 32 times (according to Googli's AI), and while this may be excessive for mashed potatoes and macaroni, thorough chewing aids digestion and absorption of nutrients. Drink your 8 glasses of water daily too (average weight, activity, and temperature).

Squat exercises have multiple benefits besides building leg strength.

Name choices for kids that reflect current cultural trends may not be all that cool in 20 years.

Depending on how handy and resourceful you are, perfectly adequate airbrush compressors can be made from compressors salvaged from old refrigerators. They're quiet too...and I have made them in the past and know they'll actually work. You can fit a cheap air tank (Harbor Freight, pawnshops, etc.) with quick-disconnects for compressed air storage, and have a dual-purpose tool. There are plenty of articles and videos online if you're interested.

Lots of high-quality craftsmanship on this one, as always.

Kinda like YooToob...

Stupidity. Sometimes even my own.

You missed my point entirely. I know what the engines are. My comment was about Ulf's model engine and his placement of the exhaust stacks. I was responding to the comment you made about the comment I made about his having the stacks in the wrong place. I was wrong about Ulf's engine. You corrected me. You and Ulf's engine were correct. The configurations of the Chevy L6 and the bigger GMC BLOCKS are close enough to make a point about the location of the side covers on the block, relative to the top of the block...which is what I did. Does that make sense??

Students asked simple questions for yootoob likes about arithmetic, history, geography, and what used to be common-knowledge often appear to be appallingly ignorant, and if they're indicative of reality, we're really in trouble.

Yeah, but I had to find out the hard way. I heard about this "huge modeling site", but it wasn't quite what i'd expected.

Yup, you are correct, as is Ulf. I stupidly commented prior to looking at where the block side covers are relative to the top of the block, and I mistakenly took the white material immediately under the chrome on Ulf's model engine to be the "lower half of the two-piece valve cover". Where he has the finned side-covers is indeed adjacent to the top of the block, so the next element up on one of these engines, no matter what head is on it, would be the cylinder head.

"Himself" is what a man's primary focus should be, not in a selfish or self-centered or greedy way, but because if you don't consciously be the best you can be first, you're really not much good to anyone else.

China made with bone ash can be remarkably thin, strong, translucent, and very beautiful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_china